Description

Responsibilities:

Create effective, user friendly and visually appealing interfaces. Design the overall functionality of the product in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing. Design user interfaces

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

* We are seeking a UX Designer to support the development of the Enterprise Data Product Practice, the Data Product Practice Portal, and several 360° data products. This role will focus on creating user-centered, accessible, and visually appealing designs that make complex information easy to use across * the Ontario Public Service.
* The ideal candidate will be passionate about simplifying complexity, enabling adoption, and championing user-centered design across diverse teams.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

* User Experience / Product Design (40%)
* Create effective, user-friendly, and visually appealing interfaces for data products, portals, and analytics tools.
* Design overall product functionality to ensure great user experience; iterate based on user testing.
* Lead user research activities (interviews, surveys, usability studies) and synthesize insights into sitemaps, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and design
recommendations.
* Facilitate workshops (e.g., journey mapping, co-design sessions, usability testing) to inform design decisions.
* Ensure all designs comply with accessibility standards (AODA, WCAG 2.1) and align with OPS/enterprise design systems.
* Experience designing for data products (dashboards, portals, analytics tools), simplifying complex information for diverse users.
* Ability to design for adoption and onboarding, ensuring broad usability and uptake across teams.

Communications & Collaboration (25%)

* Collaborate with product managers, developers, and data teams in agile environments to integrate UX throughout the product lifecycle.
* Ability to clearly communicate design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Strong communication skills to prepare reports, assessments, and design documentation.
* Champion and coach OPS partners in user-centered design methods to build organizational UX maturity.
* Team player with a track record of meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities, and maintaining client relationships.

Agile Product Development (20%)

* Experience working in agile, sprint-based development environments.
* Understanding of iterative product development cycles (Discovery → Agile → Beta → Live).
* Ability to align design deliverables with broader product development activities and constraints.

Tools & Technical (15%)

* Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Miro, Adobe XD).
* Strong understanding of accessibility requirements and enterprise design systems.
* Knowledge of web development limitations and appropriate use of technologies.
* Experience gathering user feedback to improve existing interfaces.
* Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant, practical solutions.

Desirable Skills

* Familiarity with Ontario Digital Service Design Standards or equivalent government design frameworks.
* Experience with SharePoint design/customization.
* Knowledge of service design principles and end-to-end experience design.
* Knowledge of data visualization principles and accessibility for dashboard/reporting design.
* Experience contributing to or extending enterprise design systems

Must Have:

* Create effective, user-friendly, and visually appealing interfaces for data products, portals, and analytics tools.
* Design overall product functionality to ensure great user experience; iterate based on user testing.
* Lead user research activities (interviews, surveys, usability studies) and synthesize insights into sitemaps, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and design recommendations.
* Facilitate workshops (e.g., journey mapping, co-design sessions, usability testing) to inform design decisions.
* Collaborate with product managers, developers, and data teams in agile environments to integrate UX throughout the product lifecycle.
* Ability to clearly communicate design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Understanding of iterative product development cycles (Discovery → Agile → Beta → Live).
* Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Miro, Adobe XD).
* Strong understanding of accessibility requirements and enterprise design systems.

Nice to have:

* Familiarity with Ontario Digital Service Design Standards or equivalent government design frameworks.